TASTING AUSTRALIA – Taste of the Ark Dinner
Monday 3 May 2010
Fino Restaurant in Willunga
Our Slow Food contribution to Tasting Australia will be organised by Pip Forrester of Fleurieu Peninsula Slow Food, on behalf of the three SA Slow Food Convivia – Fleurieu Peninsula, Adelaide Hills and Adelaide and Barossa.
The Taste of the Ark dinner will be held at Sharon Romeo and David Swain's Restaurant in Willunga, Fino, and feature produce already included in the Australian Slow Food Ark of Taste.
Along with local produce, the Ark ingredients that David will have the choice of selecting to include on his Menu are Kangaroo Island’s Ligurian honey, bunya nuts found in South-eastern Queensland, Tasmanian leatherwood honey and, if available, Victoria’s bullboar sausages; and those we’d like to add to the Ark include Saltbush Lamb, the Fleurieu’s Coorong Mullet and Willunga Almonds.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Food Matters!
Food Matters! By Bruce Guerin
How do you sum up a conference which ran for four days, attracted hundreds of people and had to split into several parallel sessions just to fit in the issues people wanted to talk about?
With great difficulty – as Joel Catchlove, convenor of the super-successful Plains to Plate Convergence on the Future of Food in SA, found out when confronted with screeds of keen suggestions about what to put in the conference communique.
But it basically came down to a declaration that food really matters in our community, and that we need to focus on it much more effectively for a multitude of reasons, from basic health and wellbeing to environmental sustainability and the fundamental way we build and run our cities.
An absolute highlight of Plains to Plate was the opening night address by Graham Brookman of the Food Forest, who had had to leave their property with bushfires within cooee on two sides to catch the train to the forum at UniSA.
With all the benefit of his experience as farmer, innovator, teacher, campaigner and environmentalist, Graham laid out a vision of how Adelaide might look if it took seriously the need to have fresh produce raised and grown close to and within our urban and suburban communities and made accessible to all parts of the community with short distribution chains.
It was a memorable performance. See it for yourself – it is all up on the Plains to Plate site: http://futureoffoodsa.ning.com
There was a strong shared conviction in the last sessions of the conference that community and industry groups concerned with food need to work together to get our food issues higher on the public agenda.
That governments tend to focus on food policy as a matter of economics, and achieving strategic targets for growth, was underlined a few days after the conference when the State government’s food strategy was released, with next to nothing to say about food in and for our communities.
It was great that our three Slow Food convivia in SA combined to be a partner in this significant conference – and to see Tori Moreton handing out her Johnston almonds, David Inverarity giving tastings of his raw milk cheese, and a presentation on Coorong mullet at Slow-themed sessions. Not to mention Matoula Begakis and a select band of members presiding over an impressive information desk and display of local produce.
How do you sum up a conference which ran for four days, attracted hundreds of people and had to split into several parallel sessions just to fit in the issues people wanted to talk about?
With great difficulty – as Joel Catchlove, convenor of the super-successful Plains to Plate Convergence on the Future of Food in SA, found out when confronted with screeds of keen suggestions about what to put in the conference communique.
But it basically came down to a declaration that food really matters in our community, and that we need to focus on it much more effectively for a multitude of reasons, from basic health and wellbeing to environmental sustainability and the fundamental way we build and run our cities.
An absolute highlight of Plains to Plate was the opening night address by Graham Brookman of the Food Forest, who had had to leave their property with bushfires within cooee on two sides to catch the train to the forum at UniSA.
With all the benefit of his experience as farmer, innovator, teacher, campaigner and environmentalist, Graham laid out a vision of how Adelaide might look if it took seriously the need to have fresh produce raised and grown close to and within our urban and suburban communities and made accessible to all parts of the community with short distribution chains.
It was a memorable performance. See it for yourself – it is all up on the Plains to Plate site: http://futureoffoodsa.ning.com
There was a strong shared conviction in the last sessions of the conference that community and industry groups concerned with food need to work together to get our food issues higher on the public agenda.
That governments tend to focus on food policy as a matter of economics, and achieving strategic targets for growth, was underlined a few days after the conference when the State government’s food strategy was released, with next to nothing to say about food in and for our communities.
It was great that our three Slow Food convivia in SA combined to be a partner in this significant conference – and to see Tori Moreton handing out her Johnston almonds, David Inverarity giving tastings of his raw milk cheese, and a presentation on Coorong mullet at Slow-themed sessions. Not to mention Matoula Begakis and a select band of members presiding over an impressive information desk and display of local produce.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Plains to Plate
From Plains to Plate: the Future of Food in South Australia
South Australian Food Convergence, 10-13 February 2010University of South Australia, City West Campus
Registration is now open! For more information, to view the full program and to register, visit http://futureoffoodsa.ning.com.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED - Slow Food South Australian Convivia are hosting an information table at the opening night on Wednesday and the conference sessions on Friday and Sat next week, if you are planning to go and would like to help staff the stall please contact Matoula Begakis - mbegakis@bigbutton.com.au
Slow Food Adelaide Hills, Adelaide Barossa and Fleurieu Peninsula are also working together on Presentations in the program, check on line
‘From Plains to Plate’ will bring together community, business and government to discuss the issue of strengthening South Australia’s food systems in the face of intensifying environmental, social and economic challenges.
The principle objective is to contribute to the development of food policy and community action that will provide healthy, sustainable and resilient local food systems for South Australia.
During the convergence, speakers and experts from a range of fields will discuss how local producers and successful government policies and programs can complement community activism in providing accessible healthy food and the necessary skills to cultivate resilient communities.
‘From Plains to Plate’ will bring together great minds and great ideas to produce a vision that will pave the way for making healthy and sustainable food systems a reality in South Australia.
South Australian Food Convergence, 10-13 February 2010University of South Australia, City West Campus
Registration is now open! For more information, to view the full program and to register, visit http://futureoffoodsa.ning.com.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED - Slow Food South Australian Convivia are hosting an information table at the opening night on Wednesday and the conference sessions on Friday and Sat next week, if you are planning to go and would like to help staff the stall please contact Matoula Begakis - mbegakis@bigbutton.com.au
Slow Food Adelaide Hills, Adelaide Barossa and Fleurieu Peninsula are also working together on Presentations in the program, check on line
‘From Plains to Plate’ will bring together community, business and government to discuss the issue of strengthening South Australia’s food systems in the face of intensifying environmental, social and economic challenges.
The principle objective is to contribute to the development of food policy and community action that will provide healthy, sustainable and resilient local food systems for South Australia.
During the convergence, speakers and experts from a range of fields will discuss how local producers and successful government policies and programs can complement community activism in providing accessible healthy food and the necessary skills to cultivate resilient communities.
‘From Plains to Plate’ will bring together great minds and great ideas to produce a vision that will pave the way for making healthy and sustainable food systems a reality in South Australia.
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